Senior AI Researcher – World Foundation Models

AI Research ScientistMachine Learning EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 10,001+Since 1993H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 2 moreAll locations: California | Oregon | Washington

Posted

72 days ago

Salary

$184K - $356.5K / year

Seniority

Senior

Postgraduate Degree8 yrs expEnglishNode.jsPythonPyTorch

Job Description

Senior AI Researcher – World Foundation Models

NVIDIA

• Research, implement, and validate model architecture and algorithm changes that improve video generation fidelity, with emphasis on human-centric quality. • Explore and prototype improvements across spatial multimodal modeling, modality alignment, flow-based or diffusion-based video generation, and neural rendering-inspired representations to improve controllability and long-horizon consistency. • Improve training and inference efficiency through architectural and post-training techniques (compute/memory optimizations, distillation, pruning, and compression). • Define model training objectives that improve sim-to-real and real-to-sim generalization, especially for human motion, contact, and interaction dynamics across real-world and synthetic/simulation data. • Develop detailed, domain-specific benchmarks for evaluating world foundation models, especially generation and understanding world models that reason about video, simulation, and physical environments. • Translate research results into robust implementations like training code, production-grade checkpoints, model integrations, and demos that clearly showcase capability gains across teams.

Job Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, Graphics, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of applied research and/or industry experience in vision, graphics, or adjacent ML domains or similar area.
  • 3+ years of direct experience designing, training, and evaluating generative models for image/video/audio, with strong fundamentals in modern deep learning.
  • Hands-on experience improving generative models with a focus on perceptual quality and temporal stability, especially for generating humans.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, PyTorch, C++, and CUDA with strong research-engineering practices (reproducibility, testing, profiling, experiment tracking).
  • Experience training and debugging large models in multi-GPU and/or multi-node environments and distributed training workflows.
  • Practical knowledge of inference/runtime bottlenecks and optimization techniques.
  • Strong “eye for quality” and interest in diagnosing visual artifacts (sharpness, texture detail, temporal stability, etc.) using perceptual metrics, human preference signals, or learned evaluators.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits

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